Hi this is AJ and welcome back for secret number three.

Now the last secret, the last rule was maybe your favorite, right? No more grammar rules. Good news for you. But this one is probably

the most important rule. This is really the central key. it's the main one.

And this rule or this secret is this.

Learn with your ears, not with your eyes. Again, learn with your ears, not with your eyes.

Now of course we're teaching you how to speak excellent English. Speak! And to speak well, you have to have excellent

listening. Speech comes from listening. Here's the problem. In school you mostly learned with

your eyes. What did you do? You read a lot of textbooks. You watched the teacher write a lot of stuff on the board.

Maybe you listen to the teacher, explain English in your language.

So you're hearing your language, not English, in your classroom.

But in general, what's happening is you learning, learning, learning with your eyes.

That's what happened.

And maybe still happening now. I don't know. hopefully not. Not after today. So there's a big problem of this. See,

when you're just reading and trying to learn grammar rules, for example example by reading grammar books and you're trying to learn

vocabulary by reading vocabulary lists and you're trying to read English dialogues and then you're doing written tests and then

you're doing all these written activities and written drills. None of that is

helping you with your speaking. And that's why you probably read English much better

than you speak it or understand it. It's a common problem. It's because in school you learned with your eyes all the time

or most of the time and you did very little learning with your ears.

Listening, listening, listening, is secret number three and it's probably the most important one.

You gotta listen a lot.

You've gotta listen to a lot, a lot, a lot a lot. You've got to listen to a lot, a lot of English. That's the key to great speaking.

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